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The Digital Pack-Rat, volume 12

Ok, the first is from here–a bit of a discussion about a badly reviewed journal article “Mitochondria, the missing link between body and soul: Proteomic prospective evidence”.

Creationists’ goal is to prove there’s a soulThat’s impossible to have evolved;The task is quite trying; instead, they keep lying,And think that their problem is solved.These pinhead god-floggers just woke up the bloggersWho slapped them back down to their place;With options now fewer, they’ll try something newer;A godly stupidity race.

Next, from here, a comment on the observation that creationist cure for so very many physical ailments is… enemas. The nature of the problem hardly seems to matter–if there is half a chance they can make a badly-argued connection (and remember, making badly argued connections is a property of creationists in the same way that inertia is a property of matter), they will prescribe a high colonic for everything from the common cold to lung cancer.

I don’t tend to include limericks in the pack-rat series, but these I enjoyed. One of PZ’s fans had written him… long on words, short on paragraphs or content. And, as per policy, PZ presented it in his traditional Comic Sans font.

“I get email”; we know what comes nextIn this case, an immense wall of text–So there’s no other choiceBut the standard “kook voice”–Comic sans, pathologically vexed

We know briefness contributes to witAnd this fellow, he wanders… a bit.And although there is levityIn sheer lack of brevity,More words: greater chance that it’s shit.

Lastly, the most recent kerfuffle in Washington State, where a legislator is concerned that the Supreme Ruler Of The Universe is getting short shrift. Of course, I would kinda think that a supreme ruler could take care of him, her, it, or themself(ves), but rep. Struiksma apparently thinks God–er, the supreme ruler of the universe could use her help. Seems she has more power in this than the SROTU does.

If this ruler really rules, then the courts and laws and rulesAre already gleaming jewels in his crown.Does she think that we are fools,She can use us as her tools?Let’s just wait until she coolsA little down.

Does she think her ruler shy?If we slight him, will he cry?After all, she does implyIn her billThat our power to denyIs sufficient to defy,Overcome, and say good-byeTo his will.

If this bill of hers should passThen her power would surpassHer god’s greatness, and alas,She’d be greaterWhich, although it may be crass,Means this legislative assJoins the new and higher classOf “creator”.

Poor lady. I bet she doesn’t even suspect that the Supreme Ruler Of The Universe is a cuttlefish. Or that he really doesn’t care about recognition by Washington State.